Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk » Sat, Apr 22, 2023, 5:23 PM UTC

okdood64 wrote: post #29

8n4vidtmkvmk wrote: post #16

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right? like, as a top 500 user, do i get a say in this?

Why should you? It's their platform. EDIT: Someone just posted snippet of their ToS, seems like it's not your data.

because i wrote the content, and now they're trying to say what others can or can't do with it. but sure, i agreed to some terms.

those terms are CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing), which says others can "remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially."

I'd think harvesting for AI training data falls under that. the "attribution" and "share alike" clauses make it kinda tricky though.

those terms are kind of brutal actually, I'm not sure if anyone is following them. you have to credit every answer you use in your code? and share your new totally different code?

Post by lebed2045 » Sat, Apr 22, 2023, 8:18 PM UTC

kbelder wrote: post #4

Per https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing : As noted in the Stack Exchange Terms of Service and in the footer of every page, all publicly accessible user contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license as follows: Content contributed before 2011-04-08 (UTC) is distributed under the terms of CC BY-SA 2.5. Content contributed from 2011-04-08 up to but not including 2018-05-02 (UTC) i…

what does it mean in simple words? as one of many StackOverflow contributors (although very small) I don't want that my answers were wall-guarded by SO website, they are free to use advertising revenue from traffic generated by my content to remunerate for creation and supporting the platform, but the content itself is mine, why it shouldn't be that way?

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